Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

taxing effort is required on his part. All that God
requires is simple trust—to drop into His arms with
all his weakness, and brokenness, and
imperfection, and Jesus will help the helpless, and
strengthen and build up those who feel that they are
very weakness itself. God will be glorified in his
affliction, through the patience, faith, and
submission exemplified by him. Oh! this will prove
the power of the truth we profess; it is consolation
when we need it; it is support when every prop of
an earthly nature, which has been a measurable
support, is removed.
I was also shown the case of Brother T. He has
placed himself in a condition of bondage to which
God did not call him. God is not pleased when
aged fathers give their stewardship into the hands
of unconsecrated children, even though these
profess the truth. But when the means which the
Lord has entrusted to His people is placed in the
hands of unbelieving children who are enemies to
God, He is dishonored; for that which should be
retained in the ranks of the Lord is placed in the
enemy's ranks.
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